By Jon Swartz SAN FRANCISCO -- E-mail users worldwide are being buried in a blizzard of bounced messages caused by spammers. Dubbed "backscatter spam," this latest fad is clogging e-mail accounts and slowing victims' inboxes to a crawl.

Webroot, a provider of security software, has released its Webroot E-mail Security SaaS, which is claimed to offer protection against the threat of e-mail backscatter.

Eighty five percent of companies failed to personalize the first e-mail message sent to new subscribers, Return Path discovered with its new Return Path Subscriber Experiences study.

By Goldsborough, Reid Have you ever been curious about the lines of what looks like gibberish in the headers of e-mail messages? An e-mail message's header includes not only the From, To, Subject, and Date lines but also a slew of other lines whose purpose and meaning are often far less clear.

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Cremated human remains were found Tuesday inside a package placed in a mail collection box, police said. "In my 19 years of police work, never has something like this occurred," Pottstown police Capt. F. Richard Drumheller said.